WHY SMART BY DESIGN
DIGITAL SKILLS GAP
The number of smart-city solutions is booming, and many innovative technologies are being utilized to improve the city of the future. However, governments are not seeing the results they aimed for and one of the main causes for this is the digital skill gap.
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2-FACTOR PROBLEM
Citizens don't realise the need as unaware of smart solutions and there's lack of skilled personnel to implement and maintain tech solutions of SMEs. In most European countries there's lack of commercial acumen, entrepreneurial spirit, and managerial and professional skills and competencies for scaling-up activities in satisfying the needs of a smart city.
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One of the reasons for such a gap is the lack of mentoring and training schemes for those who are concerned with the digital transformation of the cities.
SMART OBJECTIVES
The main objective of the project is to develop a knowledge and skills development package for the target group of „smart city innovators” to drive smart disruptive technology for the cities’ needs. This could foster the process of the digital transformation of the cities in Europe through elaborating, testing and providing a set of learning & training instruments to SME managers, owners of deep-tech businesses, smart city officers and managers and their trainers and mentors. More specifically the partners are working on production of a map of digital disruptive technologies for the cities’ needs and a training program with modules and materials for the smart city innovators.
THE PROJECT DETAILS
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SUSTAINABILITY
PROJECT RESOURCES
With the outcomes of the project, the trainers and smart city innovators are armed with resources that make the process of training, mentoring and networking easier and more efficient. |
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